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   "source": "https://texel.ai/",
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   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "value": false,
   "source": "https://texel.ai/",
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   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "value": false,
   "source": "https://texel.ai/",
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   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "value": false,
   "source": "https://texel.ai/",
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   "checked": "2026-09-30"
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   "source": "https://api.prod.texel.ai/openapi.json",
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   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
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   "value": "none",
   "source": "https://api.prod.texel.ai/openapi.json",
   "quote": "billable_seconds x rate_per_minute with a per-job minimum_seconds",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. Texel has no persistent session/machine at all — it's a stateless per-job API (submit a media job, get billed per job, poll/webhook for result), so there is no session duration limit to hit; 'none' reflects there being no session construct rather than an unlimited long-running machine.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "usage_api": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://texel.ai/",
   "quote": "Texel.ai is not a sandbox/VM provider; it is a hosted job-based media-AI API service (lipsync, image/video generation, encoding). While a GET /v1/billing/usage endpoint exists for per-job billing, rates (rate_per_minute) are not published via API, and the service does not rent persistent machines or",
   "note": "granularity: none; cost: no; The product's scope is discrete media generation jobs, not persistent compute resources. The billing API itemizes each job by billable_seconds and rate_per_minute, but this does not address the use case of tracking separate sandbox/VM usage to bill customers with their own machines.",
   "confidence": "high",
   "checked": "2026-10-01"
  }
 },
 "locations": [],
 "locations_source": "https://texel.ai/",
 "locations_quote": "Texel.ai is a hosted media-AI job API service. No region selection or data residency options are documented.",
 "locations_checked": "2026-10-01"
}